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CHMS HONOR ROLL released Clarendon Hills Middle School has announced the names of students who earned a place on the honor roll for the first semester of the 2021-22 school year. Sixth grade Honor roll Cameron Andrejevic, Kaden Aucoin, Angel Bazan, Ethan Brubaker, Everleigh Carter, James Clapacs, Thomas Clark, Hanna Darin, Gavin Dejuras, Nicholas Hadden, Taylor Haggerty, Jack Hamman, Stella Heintskill, Lucy Hoyt, Hunter Kauffman, Joseph Kearney, Jessie Keiner Cameron Livingston, Reese Marcet, Liam McFarland, Finnegan...
The Hinsdale Central Debate and Scholastic Bowl teams made impressive showings in their respective state competitiions last week. At the IHSA Debate state tournament March 18-19 at Illinois State University, three of the Red Devils' four two-person teams reached the final eight, or Octafinals, with the duo of juniors Sebastian Attlan and Will Schmeltz making to the quarterfinals. Social studies teacher Jen Hafner, in her first year as team sponsor, was happy with the results....
Hinsdale Village Board Among other business at their March 15 meeting, trustees: • learned Ryan Companies asked to have its proposal for a senior living development at Ogden Avenue and Adams Street pulled from the agenda. Village President Tom Cauley said he had individually polled trustees and determined there would have been a unanimous vote against the plan for a 180-unit senior living facility and 20 senior living duplex villas on the 32-acre site. “When the developer was apprised of that, he asked to have time to det...
Corrections Allison’s name should have been included in a paragraph of Community Revue cast members in Pamela Lannom’s March 17 column. Sixth-grader Charles Davis, seventh-grader Samuel Gilman and eighth-grader Nick Podolak were named to the principal’s honor roll at Clarendon Hills Middle School for the first semester of the 2021-22 school year. Their names were omitted when the list was published March 17. The names of eighth-graders Johnathan Feiro and Carmen Prieto, who also are on the CHMS principal’s honor roll, w...
Thirteen Hinsdale residents have tested positive for COVID-19 over the past week. The DuPage County Health Department reported an increase of 11 cases, and the Cook County Health Department reported two new cases. That brings the total number of reported cases in the village to 3,614, compared to 3,601 last week. Amita Hinsdale Hospital had one confirmed COVID-19 patient and no patients awaiting test results as of Wednesday, a spokeswoman said. Hinsdale Central High School reported three new positive cases on March 11 and...
Spring training - Members of Hinsdale Central's varsity baseball team spent part of their Monday afternoon practice getting their field back into shape. The Red Devil season opens March 22 against Metea Valley. Last year the team made it to the sectional finals, eventually coming up short against Brother Rice. (Jim Slonoff)...
CENTRAL WRITERS RECEIVE AWARDS Sixteen Hinsdale Central students were recently recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers in conjunction with its Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Entries submitted for the competition from students at Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South earned a total of 63 awards, which included 12 Gold Keys, 22 Silver Keys and 29 Honorable mentions. Central winners are • Jacqueline Bousquette, honorable mention, painting • Elia Crisan, honorable mention, drawing and illustration • Amy Dong,...
Gregory Kentra of Hinsdale was found not guilty Jan. 26 of driving under the influence of alcohol and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident in connection with an incident March 11, 2021, at Madison and 57th streets in which a pedestrian was struck. Judge Michael Fleming of the 18th Judicial Circuit Court did find him guilty for failing to yield at a crosswalk....
Hinsdale Central students would get out of school by 1 p.m. Wednesdays most weeks during the year under recommended changes to the district’s calendar. At the March 10 Hinsdale High School District 86 committee of the whole meeting, board members discussed a proposal from the district’s calendar committee to replace the current mix of late-start Mondays and flex-learning Wednesdays with early-release Wednesdays. Central Principal Bill Walsh said the shifting rhythms to make time for professional development resulted in con...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, March 24 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien https://d86.hinsdale86.org Hinsdale Public Library Board 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 22 Hinsdale Public Library, 20 E. Maple St. https://www.hinsdalelibrary.info On the draft agenda: confidentiality of records, PCI security, behavior and room use policies, funds transfer resolution, staff recognition expenses...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Among other business March 10, board members: • discussed the three-minute pitch process that the board has been using to determine future agenda items and potential creation of a new process for determining future agenda items that would replace the pitch. Some board members think they should not need a majority of board members to agree to add an item to the agenda as is now required. Consensus was not reached, and board President Terri Walker recommended that the topic be revisited a...
Ashley Principe was pictured working with a student on his resume in a photo than ran with a March 10 story on the District 86 Transition Center. She was misidentified in the caption....
Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 plans to spend about $703,000 to buy new math materials, including textbooks and digital resources, for the 2022-23 school year. The Math Subject Area Committee recommended i-Ready Classroom Mathematics for students in kindergarten through fifth grade at a cost of $555,833 and EdGems math for sixth- through eighth-graders at a cost of $147,526. Those costs include paper and digital resources as well as teacher training. Kathy Robinson, assistant superintendent of learning,...
When Hinsdale Central student Niko Rhodes learned Russia had invaded Ukraine, his first thoughts were of how to help the people there - including members of his own family. He has relatives in both countries on his mom's side of the family, and his stepmom and two young half-sisters were in Kyiv at the time of the invasion. "They couldn't drive out because the traffic jams to the west were so massive," he said. "Buses, same problem. Trains were not running, or the train...
Come June 1, the need to feed parking meters in downtown Hinsdale could be a thing of the past. Trustees and staff discussed a plan to allow three-hour zoned parking in the central business district at Tuesday's Hinsdale Village Board meeting. Village President Tom Cauley said officials have been talking about removing the 300 meters for some time. "It's something we started considering before COVID but shelved during COVID. COVID had just started when we opened the new...
Safe harbour - This photo in Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," shows The Life Boat Rescue Home for unwed mothers and abandoned children. The home was started and managed by the Hinsdale Sanitarium. "Relocated in 1903 from Chicago to Hinsdale, the home was strongly supported by village residents, expanding in 1909 to the building shown here at 328 Phillipa St. The home provided shelter, counseling, adoption placement, employment asistance and the...
'One man's trash is another man's treasure' - One person's recycling is another person's art seems to be a more fitting saying for the art work created at the Open Art Studio held at The Community House last month. Using dozens of different types of recyclables, students created dozens of different pieces of art. Charlotte Bower worked on making a castle for the "Little Guy" character she also created to live in. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
Xitlali Garcia was hunched over a light table Monday morning, painstakingly peeling off pieces of a transfer sheet that later would be pressed onto a St. Patrick's Day T-shirt. Garcia doesn't mind the attention to detail required. She enjoys working for Threads, a micro business that is part of the new District 86 Transition Center. She is one of about 80 to 90 Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South graduates who attend the new center, which is tucked into an office building on...
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, March 14 Hinsdale Middle School, 100 S. Garfield Ave. https://www.d181.org On the draft agenda: math resource recommendation, Rising Star Extended Day pilot recommendation, 2021-22 assessment calendar update Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, March 10 Hinsdale South High School,7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien https://d86.hinsdale86.org On the agenda: preliminary staffing recommendation for 2022-23 school year, three-year calendar...
Hinsdale vehicle stickers and animal tags are now available for purchase online, in person or through the mail. To buy online, visit the village’s website at https://www.villageofhinsdale.org. Click the “Vehicle Stickers” button on the home page to be directed to the online portal. Stickers may be purchased in person at Hinsdale Village Hall, 19 E. Chicago Ave., from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. To mail the application and payment, update the application form and return it to the Village Finance Department, 19 E....
Hinsdale Historic Preservation commissioners expressed anger during a public hearing March 2 on the application to demolish the 1927-built Italianate residence at 720 S. Elm St. and build a new house, having learned that the home's previous owner had held a pre-demo sale, illegally stripping it of items such as a furnace and flooring and rendering it uninhabitable days before it sold last summer. "It does not sit well with this commission when we're charged with trying to...
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College biochemistry student Carrie Hooper arrived home one day with bombshell news. She had just come from her part-time job nannying for the family across the street and had an epiphany while helping one of the little girls with her math homework. "All of sudden I was like, 'This is inspiring. I love this!' " related the now Carrie Molinero, who nervously proceeded to tell her parents she wanted to switch her major to education. Her mom began to cry. "She goes, 'I'm not...
A federal judge last week sentenced two men to prison for their roles in an armed robbery at a Hinsdale jewelry store nearly five years ago. U.S. District Judge Gary Feinerman on March 3 sentenced Tobias Diggs, 28, of Chicago, and Joshua McClellan, 32, of Oak Lawn, to 11 years and 8 years, respectively, in federal prison for their participation in robbery of Razny Jewelers at gunpoint the morning of March 17, 2017, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office...
Going postal - This photo in Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," is of the post office on Garfield and Chicago avenues. Hinsdale's village president at the time was William Regnery, who worked tirelessly in securing the location and also personally donated money for the project. "Through some difficult maneuvering the site of the current post office was secured in 1937. With the blessing of Hinsdale's plan commission, Regnery and others traveled to...
